Breitbart Steps Up War Against Paul Ryan

[DonViejo]

Breitbart News, a right-wing website closely tied to Donald Trump’s campaign, is escalating its war against Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to new levels with a lead story headlined: “He’s with her: Inside Paul Ryan’s months-long campaign to elect Hillary Clinton president.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/22/breitbart-steps-war-paul-ryan/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Is this the opening

Salvo of the new Trump Reality TV Right Wing Fascist Network. Lock him up!!

[PearliePoo2]

2. They're tossing grenades and laying land mines!

The G.O.P. is the target. EXCELLENT!!

[OnDoutside]

6. Be careful what you wish for ! The law of unintended consequences could come into play.

[Foggyhill]

3. The GOP will have to split, there is no turning back after this election

Its going to be a shithole for them

[wordpix]

9. maybe the more reasonable ppl will go Dem

I'm not happy with my blue dog friends most of the time but at least they're not fundie nuts or Trumpsters

[Gabi Hayes]

4. trump/whig party?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Kill it!!!!!

Before it crawls on you.

[DFW]

7. Like the Germans used to say after Khomeini's revolutionaries started executing each other in 1979

"Die Revolution frisst ihre Kinder auf."

(The revolution is eating up its children)

The Republican Party has nominated Rosemary's Baby for president, and can't understand where the stench of sulfur is coming from.

[Hortensis]

8. They also called Ryan "pro-Islamic." Lol.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving man. In the GOP chaos and insanity, Ryan's appeared pretty good, but he's an extremist who'd bring the nation to ruin while serving Trump's idea of the "winners." A few quotes I like from a Salon article wondering if Ryan would remain speaker:

Unfortunately, that Paul Ryan doesn’t exist. The man whom Esquire’s Charlie Pierce has described as the “zombie-eyed granny starver” and The New York Times’ Paul Krugman has called a “con-man” isn’t actually a very good policy wonk, which is what supposedly set him apart from all the yahoos.

As Ian Millhiser of Think Progress memorably put it in this masterful dissection of Ryan’s many flaws: a worshipful press corps. But his is a false faith, resting upon ideas that do not withstand scrutinyPaul Ryan’s ambition . . . is matched only by his innumeracy. He builds cathedrals to dyscalculia, and fills them with.

Until recently most of us who have been following him thought that while he was wildly overrated as a thinker, he was a pretty good politician. How else could he have persuaded so many people that his adolescent Ayn Randism was serious and then switch to “social justice Catholic” without missing a beat?

It has never been in the cards that most Democrats would fall for his flimflam, but at least Ryan seemed to be a figure who could bridge the growing divide in the GOP — as literally the only House Republican acceptable to all factions as speaker.

That was wrong, too. Just look at how terribly Ryan has dealt with the “Trump problem,” trying to have it both ways and ending up looking like a weasel who doesn’t know his own mind. Caught between trying to defend Trump as the nominee in order to keep the base from chasing him with pitchforks and being bashed by Trump whenever Ryan displeases him, the speaker has become a convenient punching bag.

If the usual pattern holds, Trump's base will turn on him after the election for losing, and hopefully both McConnell and Ryan will become toxic to all those who blame the Republican leadership for the party's destruction.

[Rex]

10. Trump never vetted the folks he has to rely on, just like the GOP never vetted him.

Backing yourself with Dumbass News means you are going to lose like a boss.